82: Teach all the things (Matt Knox)

This week's episode features Matt Knox of Twitter. Matt is a part of Twitter's university team which teaches new Twitter recruits about the company. He works as an engineer as well in order to stay current. Matt discusses his background as an engineer, and how he got into teaching. He discusses using Storm, essentially a real-time Hadoop, for Twitter. Ben and Matt talk about the importance of keeping a portfolio as a programmer and deliberate practice routines for coding, and more.

An episode of the Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots podcast, hosted by thoughtbot, titled "82: Teach all the things (Matt Knox)" was published on January 20, 2014 and runs 38 minutes.

January 20, 2014 ·38m · Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

Summary

This week's episode features Matt Knox of Twitter. Matt is a part of Twitter's university team which teaches new Twitter recruits about the company. He works as an engineer as well in order to stay current. Matt discusses his background as an engineer, and how he got into teaching. He discusses using Storm, essentially a real-time Hadoop, for Twitter. Ben and Matt talk about the importance of keeping a portfolio as a programmer and deliberate practice routines for coding, and more. Matt Knox's Github Matt Knox's Blog Storm Hadoop The Things They Carry On the Fundamentals of Programming Follow @thoughtbot, @r00k, and @mattknox on twitter.Support Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

Episode Description